Yabloko leader Nikolai Rybakov: The real memory of those who died in the Second World War would be a peaceful sky above us, over all of Europe, over the whole world. And our responsibility is to return it
Press Release, 6.05.2023
On 6 May, on the threashold of Victory Day, Chairman of the Yabloko party Nikolai Rybakov, on behalf of all Yabloko members, laid flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Moscow.
“When I come to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier near the Kremlin wall, or Mamayev Kurgan in Volgograd, or the Piskarevskoye cemetery in St. Petersburg, or to other mass graves, I think again and again about what an incredible price was paid for peace and how fragile it turned out to be. The real memory of those who died in the Second World War would be a peaceful sky above us, over all of Europe, over the whole world. And our responsibility is to return this world and stop killing of people,” Rybakov stressed.
Also, the head of the party brought flowers to the stelae of hero cities: Leningrad, Kyiv, Odessa, Minsk, Kerch, Tula, Smolensk, Murmansk, Sevastopol, Novorossiysk, Stalingrad and the Brest Fortress.
On 9 May, the leaders and activists of the Yabloko party will traditionally commemorate those who died in the Second World War at the Preobrazhensky Cemetery in Moscow. The delegation will also lay flowers at the memorial and graves of the French pilots of the Normandie-Niemen squadron at the Vvedensky Cemetery and clean up the area at the mass grave in the Lotoshinsky district of the Moscow region.
Posted: May 12th, 2023 under Foreign policy, History, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations.